Matt Liston
Matt Liston
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Matt Liston is Blockchain entrepreneur based out of San Francisco, California. He is known for his involvement in the blockchain platforms Gnosis and Ethereum.
Education
From 2009-2012 Matt Liston studied Mathematics and Cognitive Science at Occidental College, dropping out before graduation.
Career
Matt Liston is known for his involvement with Gnosis and Ethereum. He has also advised Blockchain platforms including FOAM, Urbit, SpankChain, and Cent.
nSuited
In January, 2012 Matt Liston founded nSuited a business that imported luxury items and sold them through a flash sales site with dynamic pricing. He started the business from his hobby of finding undervalued items at thrift stores.
Ethereum
Gnosis Prediction Market Presentation 8/10/16
From April-June, 2015 Matt Liston worked as a Community Evangelism and Communications Consultant for Ethereum. In this role, he proposed several novel use cases of the technology and communicated these to outside projects, driving interest and facilitating new partnership opportunities. He also pushed for greater financial transparency in order to increase the level of trust and cohesion between groups within the project and community.
ConsenSys
Since May, 2016 Matt Liston has been a Decentralized Autonomous Strategist for the blockchain software technology company ConsenSys.
Gnosis
In March, 2017 Matt Liston joined the founding team of Gnosis, a decentralized platform for prediction markets built on Ethereum and founded within ConsenSys. Liston is Gnosis' Chief Strategy Officer. In its Initial Coin Offering Gnosis raised 250,000 Ethereum in less than 15 minutes which was valued at $12.5 million making it the fastest ICO to sell out over $10 million at the time. By the end of 2018, Gnosis had reached a market capitalization of over $200 million.